Prosecutors accuse Serif Patkovic, a wartime Bosnian Army battalion commander, of shooting a wounded Bosnian Croat prisoner dead in the village of Dusina in 1993.
Tributes have been paid to the victims of an artillery strike on the Bosnian town of Zenica in April 1993 that left 15 people dead, including a child – an attack that no one has been convicted of ordering.
Thirty years have passed since Bosnian Army troops detained and assaulted Croat and Serb prisoners in a music school basement in Zenica. In the Hague Tribunal archives, BIRN found names of suspected perpetrators who never stood trial.
Former Croatian Defence Council fighter Ivica Jukic was cleared of treating Bosniak prisoners of war inhumanely by assaulting them at a detention facility in Zepce in 1993.
Peace activists have installed plaques at sites where people were killed or imprisoned during the 1992-95 Bosnian war in the Zenica, Doboj and Zepce areas.
In the second report in BIRN’s Forgotten Victims series about the Bosnian war, relatives of elderly Croats killed in the village of Susanj in 1993 demand to know why the investigation into the crime has not resulted in any indictments.
Wartime prisoners marked the Day of Camp Inmates by gathering at former detention centres to commemorate those who died and to demand better treatment for those who survived.
Because of a lack of resources, Bosnians convicted of fighting for radical Islamist groups abroad are not helped to ‘deradicalise’ in jail or to reintegrate into society after their release.